Open-source News

Last week marked a X.Org Server 21.1 development snapshot being released. While that snapshot noted there will "most likely be no proper release", there is discussion now over creating such a X.Org-Server-Without-XWayland release...

The Haiku open-source operating system building off the inspiration and work of BeOS is continuing strong over the summer months...

The "memfd_secret" system call is being added to the Linux 5.14 kernel to provide the ability to create memory areas that are visible only in the context of the owning process and these "secret" memory regions are not mapped by other processes or the kernel page tables...

The CentOS Board of Directors has approved the formation of the CentOS Kmods special interest group for expanding the selection of kernel modules available to this distribution...

The VirtIO-IOMMU driver now works on x86/x86_64 hardware with the Linux 5.14 kernel...

Linux Mint 20.2 is now available  Ghacks Technology News

If you're traveling by boat down your local waterway or sailing around the world, you can bring great navigation software with you and maintain your commitment to open source software. OpenCPN is free and open source software developed by sailors. It serves as the primary navigation interface for vessels with full-time helm-visible navigational suites. The software is written in C and released under a GPLv2 license.

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Linux Mint 20.2 is now available  Ghacks Technology News

Intel Posts Newest Advanced Matrix Extensions Patches For Linux (AMX Patches v7)  Phoronix

For over one year now since Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) was first disclosed as a future feature with Xeon "Sapphire Rapids", Intel engineers have been posting AMX patches for enabling the new support for changes needed from the kernel to code compiler stacks. The Linux kernel support for AMX hasn't yet landed but has now been revised its seventh time for public review...

Linux Mint 20.2 has been released and is now available for free download  brytfmonline.com

Going back to 2017 was work on firmware-based power management for Intel graphics with its GuC implementation. That work didn't advance with the time but now with Intel renewing their work around GuC and with future hardware may mandate this binary-only firmware, they are again revisiting the GuC power management...

Intel Working On Implementing GuC Firmware Based Power Management For Linux  Phoronix

Linux 5.14 has re-landed support for improvements to lower the latency of its USB audio driver...

Back in April was the release of Vulkan Video extensions for GPU-accelerated video encode/decode using this cross-platform API. NVIDIA was quick to publish a beta driver with Vulkan Video support while adoption beyond that by drivers or multimedia software has been rather limited so far. Fortunately, the popular GStreamer multimedia framework for Linux users is working in the direction of supporting Vulkan Video...

There's a growing demand for embedded operating systems, and it's best when the one you build upon is open source. The RT-Thread project's R&D team has spent three years of research and intensive development to arrive at the project's latest offering: RT-Thread Smart.

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Arriving late for the Linux 5.14 merge window that is closing this weekend are all of the Arm SoC and platform changes for this next kernel version...

T-shirt design contest celebrates 30 years of Linux  LinuxGizmos.com

Raspberry Pi: Remote VNC and RDP access to a Linux computer using RemoteIoT  Virtual-Strategy Magazine

The RISC-V architecture code supports more functionality with the in-development Linux 5.14 kernel...